Both Carroll's writing and real life were used as the basis for the film Dreamchild, which detailed the relationship between Dodgson and Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the novels' title character. Ian Holm portrayed Dodgson/Carroll, and the Creature Shop provided puppets of the fictional characters.

Jim Henson's original inspiration for The Dark Crystal came from an illustration by Leonard Lubin of crocodiles in a Victorian bathroom from a picture book version of Carroll's poem The Pig-Tale.[1] The reptilian monsters living in an atmosphere of splendor would eventually become the Skeksis.